ERIC Number: EJ1382331
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0161-956X
EISSN: EISSN-1532-7930
Too Much or Nothing at All: Racialized Administrative Burdens and Higher Education Policy Communication in Texas
Peabody Journal of Education, v98 n1 p49-65 2023
Several states, including Texas, have implemented an "excess semester credit hours (ESCH)" policy. State ESCH policies assess a fee to students at public institutions when they exceed a set number of lifetime cumulative credit hours (e.g. students with more than the 120 credit hours needed for a bachelor's degree). In this article, we investigate a case study of Texas public institutions' communication of state ESCH policies. We analyze 119 documents collected from November 2019 to April 2020 to conduct a deductive content analysis of the websites using the theory of racialized administrative burdens. We did find that institutions frequently attended by students of color, such as two-year institutions and HBCUs, were the least likely to have information about the ESCH policy.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, College Credits, Degree Requirements, State Policy, College Students, Administrator Attitudes, Racism, Information Dissemination, Minority Group Students, Black Colleges, Web Sites
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Texas
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1749275